Zwift Update 1.0.22878 Released

Zwift has released its latest game update, which dropped on iOS and tvOS early Sunday Pacific time, while making its way to desktop versions several hours later.

The biggest news in this update is the addition of new roads, which Zwifters always welcome! The new roads add ~30% more asphalt to London, 3 new pre-planned routes to ride, and lots of climbing for those who are so inclined. Here are some shots of the new roads:

Mind the wildlife!

Keith Hill’s foggy descent

Not sure yet what this white orb is all about.

Leith Hill KOM banner

Feeling a little hemmed in here.

Top of the new KOM: wide open spaces!

Leith Hill KOM start

Signage just before Leith Hill KOM start

New Routes

Surrey Hills: a complete tour of all the climbs on the London course, riding over each pass in both directions. Since the route keeps you almost entirely off of flat ground, you get a lot of climbing in. 41km (25.5 miles) long, 881m (2893′) elevation gain

Greatest London Loop: ride the outermost roads on London’s course, beginning with a flat 13 kilometers through the city then over Surrey’s Leith Hill. 25.6km (15.9 miles) long, 345m (1132′) elevation gain

Triple Loops: a large loop containing three more loops. First you hit the Greater London loop, then the Classique, then ride over Leith Hill to a loop which includes Box Hill. 40.8km (25.4 miles) long, 544m (1785′) elevation gain

New KOMs

Yes, Keith Hill is just the backside of Leith Hill: like Fox Hill is the backside of Box Hill. You may ask: why is Keith Hill much longer than Leith Hill, with more elevation? Answer: because the Leith Hill KOM only includes the upper section of the climb, while Keith Hill includes the entire section.

Closer Spawn Points

Starting points for Volcano Circuits, Classique, Richmond Flat and Jungle Circuit routes have been updated so you begin your activity closer to the “heart” of the route. This is especially useful for runners who don’t want to hoof it several miles to get to their chosen course. According to Jon Mayfield, Zwift may let users select from multiple starting points in the future.

Segment Start Lines

Zwifters have been asking for more visually obvious start lines for sprint and KOM segments for years, and Zwift has finally made our wish come true! See below for an example of the new segment start lines. (Line color matches the jersey for the segment.)

16 Comments

I watched Shane’s video and I’ll be riding the new roads today (world hack). To be honest I thought it was a bit of a yawn. More hills for the light weight riders to drop everyone on. That said, we didn’t see the short flatish section. What I had hoped for was some rolling country roads. Perhaps of more importance is some much needed enhancements like better visibility of sprint / kom starts. And finally, players can now be seen through transparent objects like the RideOn thumbs and leader beacons.

This update has also made the Box trees at the bottom of Box Hill that give it its mange better texture and rendering. It still does not reflect the real vegetation feel of Box further up the hill. But the bottom is better now.

The trouble is that while it may be boring, it’s also fairly accurate – the roads around Leith Hill in real life are just like that; trees, trees and more trees. If Zwift spiced it up by putting extra bits of scenery in, those of us who know those routes would probably complain that it wasn’t realistic enough – they can’t win!

I would like to see Zwift spend some development time on longer flat-ish routes…something that we’d see in the real world. I think it’d also be really awesome if we could purchase custom courses/maps…like for specific race courses. 🙂

As a runner, all the updates are welcomed – great to see spawn points added, and the additional country lanes now available in London make for a great change from the city. Also really like that the hills are in the long, sustained 6% range – offers variation and sustained effort without having to peg the treadmill to its max incline for a few seconds over and over. Another fun addition that might be overlooked, runners now have a sample of workouts to choose from. Hopefully soon we can start to build our own. Well done, Zwift!

After the recent update: There is now a problem in regards to “flybys” showing correctly in Strava.
Everything was working correctly on Jan/01/2018 (and before this date). Sometime between
01/01/2018 and 01/12/2018 there was an update to the software. My guess is that this update
ruined the “flyby” feature on Strava. Myself and a few other people noticed this problem.

Note: I did a race on 01/01/2018 (no problems, all the other riders/racers showed up in
my Flybys at Strava).

I did a race on 01/12/2018 and the other racers were missing on my Strava Flybys.

I did a test: I did a ride in Zwift with a friend of mine (01/13/2018).
I did not show up in his Flybys at his Strava page,
He did not show up on my Flybys at my Strava page.
I noticed this new bug ever since an update that happened sometime between
01/01/2018 and 01/12/2018.

Note: I have been using Zwift since 2016 and have never experienced this problem
(I have over 10,000 miles ridden in Zwift since then).

Side note: I also now see a file in my activity folder (along with my activity fit file)
entitled “Activity In Progress”.

I know that they did an upgrade recently in regards to corrupt or partial fit files for
uploading to third party websites (such as Strava), I assume that the
file “Activity In Progress” is part of that update.

However, they may now have a programming error present (that did not exist previously)
in regards to the Strava Flybys feature.

If anyone else can test this to confirm and post the details, that would be great !!!

I would like to bring this issue to the people and Zwift to see if this problem can be fixed.

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